Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University B.L Course Admission

Chennai: From this year on, students seeking admission for law courses will not be allowed to seek transfers to colleges other than the ones they had chosen at the time of counselling.

"We have been receiving too many requests for transfers to the Chennai law college, sometimes from even students admitted to the Chengelpattu college, which is just an hour away from the city. Hence, we have taken a policy decision not to allow such transfers," Durai Murugan, Minister for Law, said at the commencement of the first phase of counselling for admissions to the 2007-08 batch of the five-year B.L. course at Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University on Friday. Students should make an informed decision while choosing a college at the time of counselling itself, he said.

The Minister also handed over allotment letters to top rankers in this year's merit list released on July 23. G. Arivarasan of Virudhunagar, who came first, was allotted a seat in the Madurai law college and R. Kalivaradhan of Coimbatore, who was second, allotted Coimbatore law college. Third ranker K. Ambika of Chennai chose the Chennai law college.

A total of 1052 seats are available for counselling in the six government colleges in Chennai, Chengelpattu, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, Coimbatore and Tirunelveli. Around 2,800 applications have been received for the first phase, which will conclude on August 7, V. Sachidanandam, Law University Vice-Chancellor, said. While 988 of the available seats were under the merit category, 64 were special quota seats.

A total of 1182 seats will be available for the three year B.L course, counselling for which will commence shortly.